My homepage is hijacked by www1.dlinksearch.com. Is it a virus? Each time when I type a web site in the address bar, dlinksearch appears automatically. Is there any way I can get rid of this hijacker permanently?
Are you facing to an annoying issue that when you enter an invalid URL in the browser address bar, instead of showing you the website you want, you are redirected to http://www1.dlinksearch.com without your permission? If you are suffering from this pain, you should know that a browser hijacker virus is messing up your machine now. This virus attacks browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explore and Safari. It usually changes you homepage and your default search as well as some other settings of your browser to lead your computer working in a dangerous network environment.
Sometimes when you search for a site, it will come up with the page www1.dlinksearch.com. It will list the links to the website, but it won’t let you access any of them, it will just reload the page. This virus drives users mad. From the appearance we can see this website shows users a fake search engine, but in fact, it doesn’t have any real search engine features. Once a hijacker virus is installed, it can perform tons of malicious activities on your computer to make it unstable. For example: 1. It can change web browser’s default home page to a particular web site without your permission. 2. It redirects a web browser to a predefined site whenever the user enters invalid address or performs an Internet search. 3. It degrades overall web browser stability and performance. 4. It may constantly use your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers. To sum up, a hijacker virus is highly dangerous. If your browser is already taken over by www1.dlinksearch.com redirect, don’t hesitation to get rid of it as soon as possible.
1. It can redirect you to malicious websites with numerous pop up ads to interrupt and stop you from doing anything on your computer;
2. It can turn your computer to run slowly and pose sudden death;
3. It can introduce more unwanted viruses and Ransomware to do further harms;
4. It can help cyber criminals track your online activities and capture significant personal data to cause you a loss of value.
5. It can change your default DNS configuration and block you accessing your favorite sites.
6. It forcibly customizes the default homepage, search engine and bookmarks of your computer.
www1.dlinksearch.com redirect may be installed if a computer user has ever visited illegal or malicious websites or downloaded freeware or shareware from untrustworthy sources. It can cause annoying redirection to disturb users. This problem happen when you use Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, even Google Chrome to browse online. Being as a redirect virus, it keeps tracking of computer users’ online activity and causing web browser to display unwanted advertisements and pop-up windows. It poses huge risk for all the computer systems. If you have been forced to visit those unwanted websites against your authorization, particularly for this domain, you must immediately remove www1.dlinksearch.com as soon as possible in order to secure your computer.
Considering this malware can’t be fixed by any security tools, uses can use the manual guide below to fix this issue without any risk.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Since tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”
2. Remove all add-ons and extensions
Google Chrome: Wrench Icon > Tools > Extensions
Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A)
Internet Explorer: Tools > Manage Add-ons
3. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
4. Remove all the malicious files manually.
%AppData%\Local\[random].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\{ Akkreditivsearch.net\*.lnk
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{random}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”
When a redirect virus invades your computer, you will find that your browser starts continuously rerouting Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines to www1.dlinksearch.com or other websites with undesirable ads displayed. It will be a hard time for you because you cannot get any websites you want and your antivirus cannot. Computer users may get this virus installed by clicking malicious code or distribute unsafe advertising pop-ups, visiting pornographic website or downloading attachment from spam emails. www1.dlinksearch.com is consist of a fake search engine which provides fake search results that include advertisements and other methods of driving affiliate-based money right back to the hacker. This hijacker tracks user’s web browsing habits, records addresses of visited sites and sends collected data to a remote server. Therefore, it is suggested users to remove dlinksearch redirect as soon as possible.
If you have no idea how to do about that, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.
Published by & last updated on March 18, 2013 10:55 am
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